"Regrettably, they don’t use the telephone any more", stated Senad Pećanin with resignation, when he spoke about the pressure of current Bosnian politicians on the independent media. One of the most appalling events, clearly illustrating that politics is employing new means against independent journalism, happened in Dani’s premises some six months ago. The magazine published an article exposing the connection between the Bosnian mafia and high-level politics, soon after which a group of criminals broke into the magazine’s premises and harassed the journalists. Pećanin avoided a beating by sheer coincidence: as one of the thugs approached him, he was engaged in a conversation with Ivica Osim, a legend in Bosnian and Yugoslav soccer and former manager of the national team, and obviously he was an idol even to the paid ruffian. Raids on the magazine’s premises by violent gangs, being threatened with guns, bomb explosions in front of the premises – these are some of the forms of intimidation that, according to Pećanin, are ‘common’. He feels that worst of all is the fact that, despite evidence of various ‘malversations’, published in his magazine, nothing has changed in the country: no politicians resign, the public prosecutor fails to initiate any legal action, and the public only reacts for an hour, perhaps, and then continues to read the magazine. Jani Sever has commented that Slovene politicians today control the press principally through advertisement, and that newspapers are divided along political lines. Sever did not want to predict the outcome of the Podobnik suit against Mladina. He claimed, however, that this was the biggest political mistake the current Vice-President of the Slovene Government has made.